Austin Weird Scavenger Hunt: Immersive Adventure Experience
4.3
45 Ratings
Austin
Embark on an immersive adventure in Austin with our unique scavenger hunt. Explore hidden gems, solve creative challenges, and race against teams in other cities for fame and glory!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- 5300 N Capital of Texas Hwy - Your creative, nontraditional scavenger hunt begins at a scenic spot that’s a local favorite. You’ll get your digital quest from your live and interactive remote host. Then you’ll take off on your own to experience a wide variety of carefully curated locations in town. You’ll walk or drive to the various checkpoints as you solve clues, accept wacky challenges, and getting outside your comfort zone!
Both family and dog friendly, the game alternates between the indoors and outdoors, with plenty of bonus challenges too! You’ll text photos to your remote host, who cheers you on and assists, as you play to document your progress. You can even interact with the locals to solve clues. You won’t be able to avoid having fun, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets, making memories, laughing, and learning along the way!
You’ll be part of the rich culture of this dynamic city! Every turn is full of surprises, so questions in advance are welcomed. Check out all 300 of our city hunts! Great for corporate groups, tourists, curious locals, bachelor(ettes), birthdays, families, friend trips, and other special groups! Ask us about our custom designed experiences and virtual team builders too!
What's Included
- Remote interactive live guide
- Leaderboard standing
- Option to extend the hunt at no extra cost
- Exclusive discounts for future company alumni
- Digital Scavenger Hunt document provided
Additional Information
Our one-of-a-kind immersive explorations stand alone. In contrast to other companies, we offer each client their own virtual, interactive and live guide to help and support them via their mobile device. As a custom event design firm based in Austin, TX with a global reach, we host treasure hunts and more in over 300 locations throughout North America and beyond. Our carefully designed escapades are a mix of a tour, artistic task, clue hunt and social test!
Participants get to explore our top secret local favourites off the well-trodden path and creatively solve clues related to art, history and culture - for points! They can bask in the limelight on our website’s global scoreboard, regardless of their final score. They essentially get to compete against other teams in different cities, even if no other teams have joined in their city on the same day. Prepare yourself to uncover bizarre curiosities, enjoy some hearty laughs and truly make this journey your own!
- Note: You MUST provide a correct, working, domestic phone number in your reservation in order for your hunt to be possible, since it is remotely hosted. Each team must bring at least one fully charged smart phone that has GPS and that can can send and receive data, photos, videos, and text messages. If you have an international phone number or encounter other technical difficulties, you must complete the game using WhatsApp or email. You can easily provide us with this contact information through a viator message in advance of your hunt.
- The digital hunt documents is sent via text to you phones
Location
5300 N Capital of Texas Hwy
North Capital of Texas Highway
Begin outside in front of the starting location.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.3
(45 Ratings)
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Isabelle_k
Mar 2, 2024
Fun and Unique even though we grew up in Austin Area - Floating City and Gucci Goodwill. Never would have experience those without doing this Scavenger Hunt. Austin has such beautiful areas that even if you seen some of the "stops" on our hunt it's worth seeing them again with this twist. We had a person with a physical handicap so couldn't do this as fast as most. So the competition aspect didn't apply to us but that didn't matter, it was still so fun. We plan on seeing the other stops throughout the weekend.
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Csears48
Jul 29, 2023
Great fun! - I used to live in Austin in the 1970s. My wife and I decided to do a getaway from Houston one weekend, and we went up to Austin. While we were there, we found the AlleyKat Adventures tour, and did it. Quite a blast! It took me to many places that I was familiar with and a couple that I wasn’t familiar with, and we just had a grand time. Highly recommend it.
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Caitlynmoore
Jul 28, 2023
exciting and fun experience - The scavenger hunts were the best part of our multi city family trip! We did the scavenger hunt in two nearby cities in one weekend! Do it at the beginning of your trip to get a good lay of the land! I have a girls trip planned next month in Cali and was so excited to find out that Alley Kat has over ten hunts in that region too! We are going to try to do at least two of them while we are there! You get to see so much more than you ever could on your own! You look back and can’t believe you accomplished so much! Thanks Alley Kat! We’ll be back!
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Davidbq4368lo
May 2, 2023
Amazing as always! - This is the 3rd time we have done these hunts with Ally Kat Adventures and they never disappoint. Me and the team had a blast running around the city and seeing the sights along the way. 100% recommend it!
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Benske
May 1, 2023
Awesome and fun experience to see the sights of Austin - Awesome day out with the team. Very professional and well through through scavenger hunt, seeing the sights of Austin and also getting to meet a few friendly locals along the way. Very highly recommended for a fun day with friends, colleagues or family.
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700douglasn
May 1, 2023
Just the right amount of challenge! - I’m a frequent guest and this time in this city we chose the upgrade of the next gen app. It was like living in a video game as we darted all over the city. I’ve never played Pokémon Go but it was a similar concept based on what I’ve heard. This experience was unlike anything we’ve ever done before. The bonus was that we got a fast paced tour of the best of Austin. The remote host was friendly, upbeat and helpful and added to the uniqueness of the experience. Just do it!
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Lori_k
Feb 16, 2024
Disappointing - The scavenger hunt was not updated for the day of the week nor for the season. On our first stop we wasted so much time looking for something that was not even there due to the change in seasons. At another stop we were to ask the store owner a question about that day's task and the answer given with no enthusiasm was "that was done yesterday." Plus parking at most stops was sparse; so this made the hunt even less fun. The instructions were unclear as to how points were earned or even why you wanted to earn points. Asking us to dress up at a goodwill store using items we were not going to buy was just a rude and inappropriate request. .
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Brittany_h
Dec 6, 2023
Not a Scavenger Hunt; Equivalent of Googling an Article with Things to Do - This is not a scavenger hunt. Essentially, they provide you with a list of "missions" (listing all the places to go, things to do) and then they assign you points when you do them. So it's the same as if you googled "Things to do in Austin" and followed the results, only you get fake points. I've gone on other Scavenger Hunts before where part of the fun was doing puzzles to figure out where you are going next. NOT THIS. These missions (again, which are given to you), are more filled with embarrassing (or as they call it "creative") things to do, and then you do them. There might have been 1-2 puzzles on the list. My parents were in town for my birthday so we thought this might be a fun thing to do, but the moment we were given the list, we took one look and said no thank you. Waste of money, but you live and your learn.
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Johnsondominica
Apr 30, 2023
SCAM SCAM SCAM - This is a SCAM. This is not a scavenger hunt. There is no tour guide or person there with you. YOU ARE ALONE. The tour dares you to do things but it's not a scavenger hunt. The title is very deceitful. The person from the tour texts you with missions you have to do, which are dares. The description says that you can walk or drive to each mission. Our 1st mission was a 15 minute drive so that would not be a walkable. Our mission was to drive to Gucci Goodwill. We did not receive any addresses from the tour person. We GPS Gucci Goodwill and we end up at a use to be Goodwill which was no longer open. My friend and I could not find the location for Gucci goodwill. We wasted time, money, and gas for nothing. We decided to end it because we believed that this is a SCAM. I would not recommend this tour to anyone
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L9298aisherim
Mar 14, 2023
Game needs more work - We weren’t able to download the apps and stuff for the game because the messages sent weren’t links. You couldn’t click on them, we were unable to play the game. We never even started. I had a 20 year old,22 year old with me they couldn’t figure it out either
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